If you are fully acknowledging reality as it is, without judgment or resistance, you are practicing this form of acceptance.
Radical Acceptance
If you do not think you have a problem with drugs or alcohol you are said to be in this stage of change.
Pre-Contemplation
A complete rejection of the truth about addiction and the consequences to ourselves
Denial
When someone reminds themselves of the consequences of using to prevent a relapse, they are using what coping skill?
Playing the tape out
Guilt is feeling bad about what you do, _________ is feeling bad about who you are.
Shame
If you are not in a state of acceptance, you are in a state of what?
Resistance
Getting a car, a new apartment, and a job are all forms of ___________ motivation.
External
Minimization
This coping skill includes swimming, biking, running, going to the gym, or hiking.
Exercise
Mouring the loss of a loved one is an appropriate expression of what emotion?
Grief
Dialectics refers to the belief that two ______ things can be true at once. (example, life can be hard and also worth living)
opposing
If you have been faithfully attending AA meetings, working with a sponsor and completing step work for over a year, you would be in what stage of change?
Maintenance
Talking yourself into, or giving yourself permission to, use substances, drink alcohol or engage in addictive behaviors.
Rationalization or Justification
This coping skill can be done in as little as two to three minutes per day by sitting in a quiet place and clearing the mind. There are also guided versions that help people achieve a sense of calmness.
Meditation
This emotion is considered the most common secondary emotion, often times hiding what a person is truly feeling, such as sadness or fear.
Anger
Finish this quote, "Pain is mandatory. ______ is optional."
Suffering
When a person is gathering information and deciding which form of treatment would be best for them, they are in what stage of change?
Preparation
What form of therapy is typically used to correct thinking errors?
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) or REBT (Rational Emotive Therapy)
Grounding
Many men are encouraged to stifle this emotion and present to the world as brave, courageous and strong even when they do not feel so sure of themselves.
Fear
The path out of hell is through ________. By refusing to accept the ________ that is part of climibing out of hell, you fall back into hell.
Misery
A high level of this motivation will lead to longer lasting sobriety.
Internal Motivation
exaggerating the impact of events and convincing yourself that if something goes wrong, it will be intolerable and you will relapse.
Catastrophizing
__________ ___________ is a coping skill where a person rides out their craving. Without ruminating on it or giving into it, the craving will reach its peak and slowly decrease in intensity until it dissolves entirely.
Urge Surfing
A feeling of anger or bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly. According to the twelve steps, this is the number one offender.
Resentment